You bought one of Colton Manufacturing Co.'s 6 percent coupon bonds one year ago for $1,040. These bonds make annual payments and mature eleven years from now. Suppose you decide to sell your bonds today when the required return on the bonds is 5 percent. The par value is $1,000. If the inflation rate was 2 percent over the past year, what would be your total real return on the investment? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Total real return %

At the beginning of the year, you bought a $1,000 par value corporate bond with an annual coupon rate of 8 percent and a maturity date of 19 years. When you bought the bond, it had an expected yield to maturity of 13 percent. Today the bond sells for $ 760. 1. What did you pay for the bond? 2. If you sold the bond at the end of the year, what would be your one-period return on the investment? Assume that you did not receive any interest payment during the holding period.

You bought one of Elkins Manufacturing Co.'s 6.8 percent coupon bonds one year ago for $1,054. These bonds make annual payments, mature 15 years from now, and have a par value of $1,000. Suppose you decide to sell your bonds today, when the required return on the bonds is 5 percent. If the inflation rate was 3.6 percent over the past year, what would be your total real return on the investment? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Total real return %

You purchased a zero-coupon bond one year ago for $283.33. The market interest rate is now 9 percent. Assume semiannual compounding. If the bond had 15 years to maturity when you originally purchased it, what was your total return for the past year? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

An investor buys a $10,000 par, 5% coupon (semiannual payments) TIPS security with two years to maturity. If inflation every six months over the two years is 1.2 percent, what is the final payment (principal and interest) the TIPS Investor will receive? Input your final answer using two decimal places. Do not round intermediate calculations.

You bought one of Great White Shark Repellant Co.'s 7.4 percent coupon bonds one year ago for $1,041. These bonds make annual payments and mature 20 years from now. Suppose you decide to sell your bonds today, when the required return on the bonds is 6 percent. The bonds have a par value of $1,000. If the inflation rate was 4 percent over the past year, what was your total real return on investment? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Refer to Table 10-1, which is based on bonds paying 10 percent interest for 20 years. Assume interest rates in the market (yield to maturity) decline from 12 percent to 8 percent.   a. What is the bond price at 12 percent?       b. What is the bond price at 8 percent?       c. What would be your percentage return on investment if you bought when rates were 12 percent and sold when rates were 8 percent? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Input your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

You purchased a zero coupon bond one year ago for $120.36. The bond has a par value of $1,000 and the market interest rate is now 13 percent. If the bond had 17 years to maturity when you originally purchased it, what was your total return for the past year? Assume semiannual compounding.

suppose you bought a $1,000 face value bond with a coupon rate of 5.6 percent one year ago. the purchase price was $987.50. you sold the bond today for $994.20. if the inflation rate last year was 2.6 percent, what was your exact real rate of return on this investment?

Today you buy ten zero-coupon bonds which will mature in exactly 5 years. Each of these ten bonds has a face value of $100. The price you pay today for each of these bonds is $82. Assume a year goes by. Now there are only 4 years left before these bonds mature. You sell these bonds in the market for $75 per bond. What is the return you have realized on your investment in these bonds? -7.00% -9.26% -8.54% We do not have sufficient information about interest rates to calculate this answer. -9.33%